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To those of you who still worship Messiah Obama...
BillieTheBot
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Who the fuck does this man think he is?
"President Obama will be given the power to shut down the Internet with a 'kill switch' in a new law being proposed in the US. He would be able to order popular search engines such a Google and Yahoo to suspend access their websites in times of national emergency. Other US based Internet service providers as well as broadband providers would also come under his control in times of a 'cybersecurity emergency.' Any company that failed to comply would be subject to huge fines. Critics of the new law, which has been proposed by former presidential candidate Joe Liebermann, said it would be an abuse of power to let the White House control the internet."
What is it about the White House water that turns every President that gets in there into (and I quote from Dubya's 2000 election campaign) "a major league asshole"? I don't recall people in the USA voting on a party manifesto which included giving Obama the power to switch off the internet. The rest of us didn't get to vote for him in the first place.
The mask is slipping...
"President Obama will be given the power to shut down the Internet with a 'kill switch' in a new law being proposed in the US. He would be able to order popular search engines such a Google and Yahoo to suspend access their websites in times of national emergency. Other US based Internet service providers as well as broadband providers would also come under his control in times of a 'cybersecurity emergency.' Any company that failed to comply would be subject to huge fines. Critics of the new law, which has been proposed by former presidential candidate Joe Liebermann, said it would be an abuse of power to let the White House control the internet."
What is it about the White House water that turns every President that gets in there into (and I quote from Dubya's 2000 election campaign) "a major league asshole"? I don't recall people in the USA voting on a party manifesto which included giving Obama the power to switch off the internet. The rest of us didn't get to vote for him in the first place.
The mask is slipping...
Beep boop. I'm a bot.
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Emergency powers are massively wide reaching already.
That was Feb 2008, if an accident can do that to a site worldwide, think of what the US government could do if it was in its own eyes "legally" allowed to toy with the internet in such a way, I'm sure they could disrupt worldwide rather than locally.
Hahaha I love that and they all go to the one place with internet..
Also.. This is why you'd never put a teenager in charge of a country "Okay Niamh, this switch here turns off ALL internet... do not flick it unless it is an EMERGANCY" *ten minutes later* oohhh no, my internet isn't working... I better switch it off and on again hahaha
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That method couldn't be used to turn off the internet - it only worked as the ISP advertised a "more specific route"
In order for anyone to do this to the whole internet it would have to advertise twice as many routes as there currently are in the routing table (Last time I looked we were running at around half a million routes, I think - but I've a terrible memory for irrelevant stuff)
Anyone advertising a million prefixes would get ignored.
Alarmist headlines aside, as MoK says there is in fact almost no end of things most governments can do in an State of Emergency. Including in Britain and most Western democracies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw